Research field (3):
International relations
, Politics
, History - Asia/Africa
Research keywords (11):
日韓関係
, 歴史認識
, 国際関係
, International Relations
, East Asia
, Democracy
, Modernization
, Political Culture
, Ideology
, Nationalism
, Korea
Research theme for competitive and other funds (29):
2021 - 2026 National Movement Groups in South Korea: On the Contexts of Historical Disputes
2020 - 2023 SDGs and Sustainable Authoritarianism
2018 - 2022 comprehensive research on China's politcal elites: selection, competition and governance
2017 - 2022 Cultures of reconciliation and memories which concerns with Wars and colonial rules
2018 - 2021 日中韓大学間交流と北東アジアにおける集合的アイデンティティの形成
2018 - 2021 Comparative Studies on Presidential Impeachment
2016 - 2021 The Comfort Women Disputes Between Japan and South Korea in 1990s
2014 - 2017 Democratization and Judicialization of Politics in Southeast Asian Countries
2011 - 2016 Aural History Research on the 5th Republic in South Korea
2012 - 2015 Social Media and Political Impacts
2013 - 2014 International Competition and Territorial Disputes
2012 - 2013 Political Diversion and International Disputes
2010 - 2012 Political Impact of the Asian Economic Crisis: Comparing Political Instability
2009 - 2011 Comparative and Regional Study about Issues regarding Social Integration
2008 - 2010 Comparative studies on political transition : relations between preconditions and the costs of democratization, consolidation of democratic institutions
2007 - 2009 Bottom-up Political Reform : Comprehensive Study of Political Participation in China's Social Transformation
2007 - 2008 A comparative study on democratization and civil-military relations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
2007 - 2008 Comparative and Regional Study regarding Issue of Immigrant Foreigners and National Populism Movements
2005 - 2007 Research of Populism as a Global Phenomenon
2005 - 2006 Emergence of a 'new' type of political leaders in Asia and Russia : Democratization and globalization
2005 - 世界現象としての「ポピュリズム」? - グローバル化との関連を中心に
2005 - 新時代の日米関係を規定する要因の解明-史的展開と国内政治過程からの総合的分析-
2003 - 2004 Democratization and Stability of Politics in East and Southeast Asian Countries
2003 - 2004 Comparative Studies on the Suffrage for the Foreigners : In the "Transformation" of Nation-states in Globalization
2001 - 2002 A Comparative and historical study on democratization in East and Southeast Asia
2001 - 2002 Pride and Logic of Nationalisms - Comparative Studies of Ethnic Disputes after the End of Cold War -
1997 - 1998 Capacity-Building and Development in Developing Countries
Kan KIMURA. Changing Perceptions of North Korea in Japan and Japan-US-South Korea Cooperation. The Asan Forum. 2024
Kimura Kan. The Self-Legitimization Logic of Coup Forces : A Case Study of the Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan Regimes. 2023. 31. 35-61
Kan Kimura. South Korea: Still the'politics of the vortex'? 1 A historical analysis of party solidarities and populism. The Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia Pacific. 2023. 316-329
Kan Kimura. Japan-South Korean Relations: Addressing the Deadlock. Japan and its Partners in the Indo-Pacific. 2023. 244
Kan Kimura. Japanese Colonial Rule and the Issue of Perceptions of History. Modern Japan’s Place in World History: from Meiji to Reiwa. 2023. 135-145
Structural Change in Northeast Asia: Asian Paradox or a Typical Phenomenon in the Globalizing World?
(The 9th Kobe University Brussels European Centre Symposium - SMart Cities, Secure Societies: Breakthroughs in EU and Japan Research Cooperation 2018)
The Role of Democracies and the International Order
(Governance, Leadership and Legitimacy in East Asia 2018)
Politics of the Kono Statement: The Road from Kim Haksun to the Asian Women’s Fund
(Annual Conference 2018 of Association for Asian Studies 2018)
Structural Change in Northeast Asia: Between Rising China and US Populism
(Symposium: The Future of East Asia After the Pivot 2017)
1990 - 1992 Kyoto University Graduate School of Law
1986 - 1990 Kyoto University Faculty of Law
Professional career (2):
修士(法学) (京都大学)
博士(法学) (京都大学)
Work history (13):
2023/04 - 現在 Kobe University Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies Dean
2005/04 - 現在 Kobe University Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies
2017/04 - 2021/03 Kobe University
2014/09 - 2014/10 Korea University Graduate School of International Studies Visiting Professor
2010/04 - 2011/03 University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies Visiting Scholar
2008/03 - 2008/05 Australia National University College of Asia and the Pacific Visiting Scholar
2006/07 - 2006/10 Sejong Institute Visiting Scholar
1997/04 - 2005/03 Kobe University Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies Department of International Cooperation Policy Studies
2001/07 - 2001/10 Korea Univeristy Asiatic Research Institute Visiting Scholar
1998/09 - 1999/10 Harvard University Fairbank Center for East Asia Studies Visiting Scholar
1994/04 - 1997/03 Ehime University Faculty of Law and Letters
1996/09 - 1997/01 Korea Foundation Fellow
1993/04 - 1994/03 Ehime University Faculty of Law and Letters
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Committee career (18):
2000/11 - 現在 現代韓国朝鮮学会 理事
1996/06 - 現在 東アジア近代史学会 理事
2022/12 - 2024/10 Association for Contemporary Korean Studies in Japan President
2020/11 - 2022/12 現代韓国朝鮮学会 副会長
2018/11 - 2020/11 現代韓国朝鮮学会 企画委員長
2014/11 - 2016/10 現代韓国朝鮮学会 編集委員長
2012/10 - 2013/10 日本政治学会 書評委員
2010/06 - 2011/06 日本比較政治学会 理事
2008/11 - 2010/10 日本政治学会 研究交流委員
2007/06 - 2010/03 日韓歴史共同研究委員会(第二期) 委員
2008/06 - 2009/06 日本比較政治学会 編集委員
2007/06 - 2008/06 日本比較政治学会 編集委員
2005/10 - 2007/10 日本政治学会 選挙管理委員
2002/05 - 2005/05 日韓歴史共同研究委員会(第一期) 研究協力者
2002/10 - 2004/10 日本政治学会 日韓交流小委員長
2001/10 - 2002/10 日本政治学会 文献委員
2001/06 - 2002/06 日本比較政治学会 編集委員
2000/06 - 2001/06 日本比較政治学会 企画委員
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Awards (3):
2015/07 - Yomiuri-Yoshino-Sakuzō Award
2003/12 - サントリー文化財団 The 25th Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities 『韓国における「権威主義的」体制の成立:李承晩政権を中心に』(ミネルヴァ書房、2003年)
2001/11 - アジア調査会、毎日新聞社 Special Prize of Asian Pacific Prize 『朝鮮/韓国ナショナリズムと「小国意識」:朝貢国から国民国家へ』(ミネルヴァ書房、2000年)
Association Membership(s) (8):
国際政治学会
, The International Studies Association
, 現代韓国朝鮮学会
, Association for Asian Studies
, 東アジア近代史学会
, 日本政治学会
, 比較政治学会
, International Policitical Science Association